God’s response to the rebellion at Shinar, unlike the flood, was not the destruction of the rebels. It was a plan for their redemption. It began with a dispersion, a universal diaspora. By confusing their languages, the story portrays God dividing them into family groups—later called nations. In the language of Deuteronomy 32:8, God, ‘separated the sons of men’ and ‘set boundaries’ for them here. Here God separated them from one another, but more significantly for the larger story of God’s redemptive plan, from Himself. That is, the story recounts the ‘disinheritance’ of the nations which dramatically affected the Creator’s direct involvement with these families. - Bill Scofield, The Irrevocable Blessing & Burden of Election